After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term " comedy " thus gained a new semantic meaning in Medieval literature.

While at Roach, McCarey cast Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy together and guided development of their onscreen characters, thus creating one of the most enduring comedy teams of all time.

In 1996, Feldman directed his first and thus far only motion picture, a slapstick comedy called ' Busted ' where Haim played a leading role.

The purpose of black comedy is to make light of serious and often taboo subject matter, and some comedians use it as a tool for exploring vulgar issues, thus provoking discomfort and serious thought as well as amusement in their audience.

Two-Way Stretch, sometimes titled Nothing Barred, is a 1960 British comedy film, about a group of prisoners who plan to break out of jail, commit a robbery, and then break back into jail again, thus giving them the perfect alibi – that they were behind bars when the robbery occurred.

Those tours established the idea of running comedy shows in small venues around London, and thus sowed the seeds of the network of pub-based gigs that grew in the capital and across the UK throughout the 1980s.

Cracked also appeared monthly during the period when Mad was being published just 8 times a year, thus picking up readership from Mad fans that couldn't wait out the six weeks for their next " comedy fix.

Cavemen ( including Sid Caesar ) depict the invention of fire, the first marriages ( the first “ Homo sapiens ” marriage which was swiftly followed by the first " homosexual marriage "), the first artist ( which in turn gives rise to the first critic ), and early attempts at comedy and music, by smashing each other's feet with rocks and thus creating an orchestra of screams.

After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term " comedy " thus gained a new semantic meaning in Medieval literature.

Also in 1984, Meyers, Shyer and Miller penned Protocol, another comedy starring Goldie Hawn in which she portrayed a cocktail waitress who prevents the assassination of a visiting Arab Emir, and thus is offered a job with the United States Department of State as a protocol official.

The subject matter, which ranged from comedy to drama, was mature and could include nudity and profanity, and thus episodes began with a humorously-worded call for viewer's discretion.

Then attention is directed away from the object ( hence, " misdirection ") through a combination of comedy, sleight of hand or an unimportant object of focus, thus providing just enough time for the magician to do whatever he or she wishes to do with the original object.

" Eventually the form acquired a tradition and cohesiveness that allowed it to stand on its own, and it was thus a logical development to combine the existing features with sung, acted parts, and be absorbed into the new artform of opera, which also drew from the traditions of monody and madrigal comedy.

It was thus only the thirty-first highest grossing film of the year, behind a few other films in the comedy, horror or fantasy genre, such as Back to the Future Part III ($ 87, 727, 583 ), Edward Scissorhands ($ 56, 362, 352 ), and Arachnophobia ($ 53, 208, 180 ).

Filofax is also the UK name of the 1990 James Belushi comedy film Taking Care of Business, which is based around a Filofax personal organiser ( and thus one's entire identity ) being stolen.

An animated example is the clip from the show " The Simpsons " in which Homer Simpson takes a picture of himself a day for 39 years, although it is intended to be a comedy, thus not realistic.

Usually the band leader is a major part of the show, and the band leader and host often exchange playful banter during the monologue and comedy segments ; the band leader has thus taken over the part of being the host's sidekick, which in the past was played by Ed McMahon and Andy Richter, among others.

He developed a passion for mimicry and stand-up comedy, inspired by watching comedians like Johnny Walker, Kishore Kumar and Mehmood in films and mimicry artists like Dinesh Hingoo and Nerella Venumadhav on stage, and thus decided to be a mimicry artist.

After coming off a successful comedy tour, Dolemite throws a get-together at his mansion, there he announces that he is to offer his mansion to the person that started a drive for a new boys ' home, then is rudely interrupted by the local sheriff and his deputies because they're a group of black people having a party, thus causing trouble.

In the following year his comedy Il ne faut jurer de rien was acted at the same theatre, and thus led to the production of his finer plays.

For his part, Dragojević boldly announced it as " the best film of my career ", and soon expanded on the statement: " Saying that was the result of my satisfaction with the fact I succeeded in controlling a very risky thing-to continuously balance between the concepts of ' high comedy ' and ' high drama ' and to purposely impact the viewer's limbic system, thus manipulating and drawing emotions I deem necessary for every segment of the movie all of which results in the emotional and cognitive reaction I planned ".

The advertisement pre-dated Hogan's popularity in the 1986 film Crocodile Dundee and thus were not initially seen as celebrity advertisements in America, as he was relatively unknown in the United States ( though well-known in the UK through his long-running television comedy show ), although the film somewhat increased the commercial's popularity.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

`` If we cannot tell evil, horror, and insanity from nonsense, what is the future of humor and comedy ''??

In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

This is the strongest act to hit the area in a long while -- a well integrated, fast moving outfit specializing in skits, vocals, comedy and instrumentals all of it distinctly displaying the pro touch.

One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.

It is danced by some thirty-five men and no women, and it contains everything in the books -- lusty comedy, gregarious cavorting, and tricks that only madmen or Russians would attempt to make the human body perform.

In comedy, several players are emerging in the image of the very popular Rouiched which is illustrated in several films such as Hassan Terro or Hassan Taxi, or actor Hadj Abderrahmane better known under the pseudonym of the Inspector Tahar in 1973 comedy The Holiday of The Inspector Tahar directed by Musa Haddad.

The most accomplished comedy is Carnaval fi dechra directed by Mohamed Oukassi, and starting Athman Ariouet.

Sólo con tu pareja was a sex comedy about a womanizing businessman ( played by Daniel Giménez Cacho ), who after spurning an attractive nurse, is fooled into believing he's contracted HIV.

He is also a prominent character in Aristophanes ' comedy the Thesmophoriazusae.

* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

Army of Darkness, also titled Bruce Campbell vs Army of Darkness, Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness or just Evil Dead III, is a 1992 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Raimi.

" And the song " New York, New York " ( by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the 1940s musical comedy and film, " On the Town ") explains that " The Bronx is up and the Battery's down.

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.

His other major film from this period is the slasher comedy Murder a la Mod.

The " shock ending " finale is effective even while it upholds horror-film convention, its suspense sequences are buttressed by teen comedy tropes, and its use of split-screen, split-diopter and slow motion shots tell the story visually rather than through dialogue.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American action / comedy film about a Valley girl cheerleader named Buffy ( Kristy Swanson ) who learns that it is her fate to hunt vampires.

* Crackerjack – a 2002 Australian comedy film about a wisecracking layabout who joins a lawn bowls club in order to be allowed to use a free parking spot but is forced to play bowls with the much older crowd when the club enters financial difficulty.

The final episode of this series, " Goodbyeee ", is known for being extraordinarily poignant for a comedy – especially the final scene, which sees the main characters ( Blackadder, Baldrick, George, and Darling ) finally going " over the top " and charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land to presumably die.